Top 20 Software Startup Investors in Costa Rica in May 2026
Top 20 Software Startup Investors in Costa Rica in May 2026
| Investor | Software Costa Rica investments |
|---|---|
| Carao Ventures | 4 |
| Roberto Souviron | 1 |
| Felipe Villamarin | 1 |
| NFX | 1 |
| AU21 Capital | 1 |
| Cluster Capital | 1 |
| Fabian Gomez Gutierrez | 1 |
| BitScale | 1 |
| Collab+Currency | 1 |
| Andres Bilbao | 1 |
| Matias Woloski | 1 |
| Caricaco VC | 1 |
| Metaverse Ventures | 1 |
| Imaginable Futures | 1 |
| NXTP Ventures | 1 |
| Broom Ventures | 1 |
| Epakon Capital | 1 |
| NDRC | 1 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 1 |
| devlabs | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!They partner with startups (tech and non-tech) with the potential to grow quickly and sustainably. Their primary focus is on companies that are currently targeting a specific regional market with a real opportunity to expand to all of Latin America and globally. They are looking for the brightest technical founders and most devoted entrepreneurswith an emphasis in solid execution. Carao Ventures has an early stage startup program where one of their partners takes an active role in the startup through the next stage of company development, participating in relevant roles such as strategy, finance, marketing and others. Their partners and mentors have a committment to sharing their experience, technical knowledge and contacts to take startups to the next level. A co-working space conveniently located in the heart of the city provides a space and environment for startups and people looking to start a company to come hang out. A wealth of resources for entrepreneurs are continuously researched and put available to teams that are looking to to get their company into the best shape possible. They also assist established business groups or seasoned entrepreneurs in analyzing, developing and overseeing new ventures.
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- Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Loopa Finance — Qanlex provides litigation financing with a focus on continental law countries. Qanlex was founded by Yago Zavalia Gahan and Fernando Folgueiro.
- boxful — Boxful provides ultra-fast fulfillment, shipping management, and a network of smart lockers to enable same-day or next-day deliveries for e-commerce brands and online sellers in Latin America.
- Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance
Roberto Souviron is a Founder at Win Win Ventures. Roberto attended Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business.
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- Operating Systems, Financial Services
- Seed
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
Felipe Villamarin is a Co-Founder at Rappi.
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- Internet, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
- C4c7us — Optimize your Project's Infrastructure in Minutes - Optimize the management of your IT infrastructure with our platform, offering an agile, secure, and scalable solution. Gain greater control over your technological resources and maximize your savings.
- fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
- Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
- Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- PERL.eco — The Planetary Ecosystem Registration Ledger will be a dedicated blockchain for real-world ecological assets through tokenizing carbon credits and biodiversity, NFTs and decentralised (DeFi) rewards.
- Meter.io — Meter.io is a base layer hybrid consensus protocol built to address the volatility, scaling and interoperability problems in the existing cryptocurrencies.
- Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shadow War — Shadow War is a 5v5 competitive PvP action game for PC and Console. Fight online in a futuristic cyberpunk world
- Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
- Mavryk Dynamics — Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi).
Founder & CEO of Frubana. Former Rappi Expansion Leader. Former McKinsey consultant.
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- Information Technology, B2B, Beauty
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
- fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
- Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.
BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
- Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Collab+Currency is a crypto-focused venture fund that backs early-stage projects developing the next generation of financial infrastructure, culture, and human organization.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- AKEDO — AKEDO is a AI framework that creates and designs engaging games.
- Slingshot DAO — Slingshot is a community-powered AI infrastructure network. $SHOT is the utility token powering an ecosystem of AI products on Base.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
Andres Bilbao
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
- fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
- FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
- Keycard — Build and deploy secure AI agents with Keycard. Our unified identity infrastructure delivers real-time access control, compliance, and trust for the agent-native world.
- Luzid — The agentic ERP delivery platform. Luzid helps you increase quality, reduce risk, and accelerate time to go-live.
CARICACO is a startup powerhouse. We support the best entrepreneurs in Central America with capital, mentors and connections. We seek to be the bridge that connects early stage startups with new markets and the best investment funds/accelerators.
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- SaaS, Retail, Banking
- Pre-Seed
- Costa Rica, El Salvador
Portfolio highlights
- Avify — Avify es el CRM para WhatsApp que conecta todo tu negocio a tus conversaciones y automatiza ventas.
- boxful — Boxful provides ultra-fast fulfillment, shipping management, and a network of smart lockers to enable same-day or next-day deliveries for e-commerce brands and online sellers in Latin America.
- Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
Metaverse Ventures invests in companies that are building products and services for Decentraland and the decentralized metaverse.
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- Gaming, Software, Blockchain
- Series A, Funding Round
- Costa Rica
Portfolio highlights
- Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
- Decentral Games — We build games that reward you to play. Play, earn, and scale your own metaverse guild. ICE Poker beta is now live.
Imaginable Futures is a global philanthropic investment firm driven by impact and the belief that learning is key to well-being and equitable, healthy systems.
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- Non Profit, Education, Communities
- Grant, Seed, Series A
- United States, Brazil, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- LIFT — LIFT is a national nonprofit that empowers families to break the cycle of poverty.
- Wonderschool — Wonderschool is an end to end solution for family child care providers and centers. Wonderschool helps providers, families and state leaders to increase the health of the child care landscape on the ground.
- American Council on Education — The American Council on Education (ACE) is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice.
Founded in 2011, NXTP was one of the early investors in B2B unicorns in Latin America, such as Nuvemshop, Mural, Auth0, Frete.com, and Betterfly. Based across offices in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Argentina, NXTP invests checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million in startups at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. NXTP principally supportsfounders in four B2B verticals: Cloud & SaaS, FinTech, E-Commerce Enablers, and B2B Marketplaces. The fund has backed more than 130 startups, raising over $2 billion in additional capital, and has co-invested alongside funds such as a16z, Greylock, Tiger Global, and Greenoaks. It boasts a portfolio of 6 unicorns and 32 exits. NXTP has a Latin American network not only to identify the region’s best entrepreneurs but also to help them expand their operations to other countries. NXTP's main goal is to help companies move to the next level, demonstrate a viable and scalable business, and be part of that growth process. NXTP has over 400 experts to assist companies in addressing operational challenges in different segments.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Argentina, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.
- Luzid — The agentic ERP delivery platform. Luzid helps you increase quality, reduce risk, and accelerate time to go-live.
- Openlayer — Native integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, CoPilot, OTel, Snowflake, and more. Continuous CI/CD validation, production monitoring, security guardrails, and automated compliance aligned to EU AI Act and NIST.
Broom Ventures invests in extraordinary pre-seed and seed-stage founders. We sweep the floors to help early stage technology companies achieve their full potential.
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- Software, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Sytrex — The platform where insurance teams build AI agents. Submissions, slips, underwriting, automated by agents you design, governed by your team.
- Brick — Brick is an AI-powered platform for automating fraud prevention and underwriting, giving businesses full control over risk analysis.
- Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.
Epakon Capital is a high growth, early-stage (pre-seed to seed) venture capital fund investing in category-defining businesses across emerging markets. For founders, by founders.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Venezuela, Mexico
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- NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
- UnshETH — unshETH is a decentralized, on-chain movement to use incentive engineering to preserve and protect the trustless, immutable, and censorship-resistant nature of Ethereum.
- Reforged Labs — The world's first AI copilot for mobile game marketers. AI-powered research and insights to help creative teams improve ROAS by moving faster and testing smarter.
NDRC builds high-impact new ventures. By providing the people, time, space and investment needed at the earliest stages of dedicated commercialisation work, NDRC is creating companies worthy of commercial investment and with the ability to scale. The NDRC team has the breadth of knowledge and expertise in technology and markets. NDRC worksside-by-side with researchers, entrepreneurs and venture teams to turn great ideas into successful new ventures.By the end of 2014, NDRC’s portfolio of startup ventures had secured a cumulative €88m in follow-on investment from commercial investors, with a combined market capitalisation of approx. €220m.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Israel
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- Base Power — Base provides a battery-powered home energy service so you can enjoy power without interruption and save money. Now available in select regions of Texas.
- Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
- ScaleOps — ScaleOps is the industry's first Kubernetes optimization platform that automatically optimizes compute resources in real-time.
We target the global pipeline of outlier entrepreneurs building B2B digital companies that are currently undervalued and looking to grow by partnering with founder friendly investors that can help them reach more customers, build a better product and raise capital in a relatively short period of time.With Oakland, California as a base in SiliconValley, we currently invest via:- LatAm Seed Fund: Pre-Seed up to Series A startups, primarily in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru) scaling up globally. Typically invest an initial 50-100k USD, then follow-on up to 500k from this fund.- Global Fund: Seed to Series B startups scaling across the Americas, Africa with more than 1MM in ARR.We are open to leading or joining rounds, co-investments, and follow-on syndicates (SPVs).
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- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Chile, Peru, Ecuador
Portfolio highlights
- Soyio — Gestiona consentimiento, identidad y derechos de titulares con trazabilidad auditable. Registra actividades de tratamiento con IA. Cumple la ley 21.719.
- ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
- Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
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